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In our new blog series we are dive into the most important questions behind modern commerce.

What actually is a legal entity? Why is it so powerful? And why, despite the digitalization of global trade, do we still lack a universal way to identify them?

https://t.co/SC6FbnLbub

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A 2025 rule change stripped beneficial ownership reporting from 99% of US companies.

The @USGAO has now flagged this gap twice in a year, and is using OpenCorporates primary-source data to trace who controls a company anyway.

Read our detailed breakdown: https://t.co/9cRHLXxKqm

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The @USGAO just released a major report on corporate transparency, warning that recent #FinCEN exemptions create significant risks for illicit finance.

We are proud that they relied on OpenCorporates data to analyze the impact.

https://t.co/gq9IAlA7V7

#CorporateTransparency

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Manual fund verification breaks down when you are dealing with 245,000+ records a year.

Our latest case study covers how a leading CLM provider used our entity data to automate verification and quickly flag complex exceptions: https://t.co/Fc55YEEs0k

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Basic name matching and black-box data aggregators leave investment firms with endless duplicate data.

Here is how a global asset manager used Snowflake, AWS, and our legal entity data to automate their matching pipelines in weeks: https://t.co/vcyTAsF9rw

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Day 2 at #EBRA2026! 🇲🇹📊 Registries are shifting from simple data repositories to active custodians of entity identity and the ultimate "source of truth." 🏛️
At OpenCorporates, we love seeing the community champion high-quality, usable data. 🚀 #OpenData #GovTech #OpenCorporates

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Day 1 at #EBRA2026 in Malta proved that whether scaling commerce or fighting financial crime, cross-border collaboration is key. 🇲🇹
Learning that Innovations like European Business Wallets all rely on one foundation: reliable, verifiable business identities. 💯

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Our Head of Product is heading to Malta for #EBRA2026!
She’ll be discussing how OpenCorporates is partnering with European registries via primary-source APIs and our data pipelines to build secure data infrastructure.
#RegTech #OpenData #DataGovernance

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Our global registry tour continues next week as Team OpenCorporates heads to the EBRA 2026 Conference! 🇲🇹
We’re excited to talk digital transformation, economic transparency, and open company data with Europe's business registries.
See you there! 👋
#EBRA2026 #OpenCorporates

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That’s a wrap on #IACA2026! 🎬 Big thanks to the IACA team for a fantastic event. Our Paddington Bears finally arrived as well, bringing a huge final rush to our stand! 🐻✈️ Loved hearing the EBRA updates too, the team is heading to Malta next! 🇲🇹👋 #OpenData #GovTech

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Day 2 at IACA is rolling! 🚀 Started strong with "Navigating the API Landscape" & loved seeing you at our stand.
Fun throwback to last night: Rhode Islanders don't travel without a snack 🍿 so we supplied the treats for the bus ride to Blithewold Manor! 🚌✨
#IACA2026

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Team OpenCorporates is at IACA! Drop by our exhibition stand to chat with our data specialists about enhancing your registry’s workflows.
What to expect:
📶 Expert insights
📚 Exclusive resources
Come say hello 👇
#IACA2026 #OpenData #GovTech #OpenCorporates

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We're excited to join our partners at #IACA2026 to discuss how data provenance and registry innovation support global economic growth.
Meet with our team:
👤 Tim Butchart, CEO
👤 Marelize Venter, Head of Product
#Transparency #IACA2026

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Heading to #IACA2026? So are we! 🏛️✨
Stop by the OpenCorporates booth to meet our CEO and Head of Product. Let’s talk digital modernization and registry excellence.
See you at the Roll Call! 🤝 #Transparency #Innovation

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We are proud to be a Silver Partner at this year’s #IACA2026 in Providence! 🌊 At OpenCorporates, we don’t just provide legal entity data, we’re here to help protect its integrity.
#RegistryModernisation #OpenData #IACA #Providence #plei

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You've been thinking about legal entities all wrong.

The traditional taxonomy of legal personality is a misleading frame that the law has been dismantling for over a century.

It’s time to retire it.

Read Part 10 of our series to see why: https://t.co/hgz87VVDkZ

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Less than 1% of global legal entities hold an LEI. The other 99% isn't just slow to adopt. It includes every shell company, money launderer, and sanctions evader on earth. The biggest flaw in fighting financial crime is relying on voluntary identification.
https://t.co/Ak5U1uRwad

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10 years since the #PanamaPapers changed everything. Is the money trail any clearer? 🕵️‍♂️🏛️
Catch up on our recent masterclass series on-demand:
The Modern Money Trail: https://t.co/Lwg3G5UWE2
The Panama Papers Deep Dive: https://t.co/zeuwTJE6Oi
#OpenData #AML #FinancialCrime

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The most common proposal to fix global entity identification is to simply make LEIs free. It sounds perfectly logical, but is fundamentally wrong.

Any system that requires an entity to initiate its own registration will inevitably fail at a global scale: https://t.co/Du3ULPmOCe

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🚀 OpenCorporates' Andrey is a finalist for AI Leader of the Year at the 2026 Digital Technology Leaders Awards! 🏆
From mastering 140+ jurisdictions to scaling AI that bridges the "Transparency Gap,".
Read more: https://t.co/Ve3oiaMSl6

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AI and smart contracts are taking over global commerce, but they share a massive blind spot that covers 99% of the world's businesses.

See how the identity gap threatens global trade, and the new system built to replace it → https://t.co/aN8kRVVnIw

#Digitalization #Compliance